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1837. Zilla GENISTA! C. Koch, Uebers. d. Arachn.-Syst., 1, p. 5.

1837. „ decora id., ibid.

1839. „ acalypha id., Die Arachn., VI, p. 139, Tab. CCXIII, flgg.

530, 531.

1841. Epeira acalypha Walck., H. N. d. Ins. Apt., II, p. 50.

1866. Miranda acalypha Merge, Preuss. Spiim., I, p. 71, PI. 11, tab. 16.

This beautiful little Epeira , so common over a great part ofEurope , also belongs to the fauna of Sweden : it has been capturedin Sk&ne by Mr G. A. W. Wetter of Lund.

(Pag. 355.) Epeira albimacnla [= Epeira diodia Walck. 1802].

Syn.; 1802.1805.1834.

1839.

1841.

1854.

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Aranea DIODIA Wai.ck., Faune Par., II, 200.

Epeira „ id., Tabl. d. Aran., p. 60.

Zilla albimaoula C. Koch, in IIehr.-Sch.km'. , Deutsclil. Ins.,

124, 21, 22 (sec. Die Arachn.).

„ „ id., Die Arachn., VI, p. 144, Tab. CCXV,

flgg. 534, 535.

Epeira diodia Walck., H. N. d. Ins. Apt., II, p. 55.

,, albimaoula II lack w., Supplem. to a Catal. , cet., in Ann.

and Mag. of Nat. Hist., 2 Ser., XIV, p. 33.

Ep. albimacnla (C. Koch), Blackw., of which I collected speci-mens both in France and Germany , is undoubtedly identical withE. cliodia Walck., as has been already (p. 39) remarked, and asWalckenaer himself suspected: vid. Ins. Apt., II, p. 55 (where macu-lata is a slip of the pen for albimaoula). This species stands onthe point of transition between Epeira and Meta, as I (On Eur .Spid., pp. 49, 50) determined the limits of these genera: in its ge-neral appearance it resembles a Meta, but in the form of the ma-xillae it agrees with the genus Epeira. — Meta albimacnla Westr.,under which C. Koch’s Zilla albimacnla has been erroneously cited,is quite a different form, standing in close connexion with Metasegmentata, and ought to be called Meta Mengii (Blackw.). See the”Additions and Corrections ” to p. 40, Meta albimaoula Westr.

(Pag. 357.) Epeira anthraeina [= Singa pggmwa (Sund.) 1830].

Syn.: 1861. SlNGA Herii Westr., Aran. Suec., p. 57.

Cet. Syn. vid. sup., p. 26 (”E. Herii Blackw.’ - tamen incertum est syn.).

The Kev. 0. P. Cambridge, to whom I had sent a fullgrownSwedish c? of Siuga pygmcea, has had the kindness to compare it

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